AFRICAN AMERICAN BOOKS AND RELATED MATERIALS
HOCKADAY LOWER-MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARY
BIOGRAPHY AND COLLECTIVE BIOGRAPHY
Aaron
I Had a Hammer (Hank Aaron)
Tavares
Henry Aaron’s Dream
Pinkney
Alvin Ailey
Probosz
Alvin Ailey, Jr.
Bolden
The Champ! The Story of Muhammad Ali
Smith
Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali
Klots
Richard Allen: Religious Leader and Social Activist
Freedman
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle
for Equal Rights
Livingston
Keep on Singing: A Ballad of Marian Anderson
McKissack Marian Anderson: A Great Singer
Ryan
When Marian Sang (Marian Anderson)
Tedards
Marian Anderson
Tobias
Marian Anderson
Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
King
Maya Angelou: Greeting the Morning
Shapiro
Maya Angelou: Author
Cobblestone Louis Armstrong and the Art of Jazz
Orgill
If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong
Tanenhaus
Louis Armstrong
Ashe
Daddy and Me: A Photo Story of Arthur Ashe and His Daughter, Camera
Quackenbush Arthur Ashe and His Match with History
Schroeder
Josephine Baker
Conley
Benjamin Banneker
Hinman
Benjamin Banneker
Patterson
Benjamin Banneker, Genius of Early America
Pinkney
Dear Benjamin Banneker
Fradin
The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine
Polakow
Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader
Barasch
Knockin’ on Wood: Starring Peg Leg Bates
Beals
Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate
Little Rock’s Central High (Melba Pattillo Beals)
Blassingame Jim Beckwourth: Black Trapper and Indian Chief
Cobblestone Mary McLeod Bethune: Educator, Organizer, and Political Activist
Greenfield
Mary McLeod Bethune
Halasa
Mary McLeod Bethune
McKissack
Mary McLeod Bethune
Myers
At Her Majesty’s Request: An African Princess in Victorian England
(Sarah Forbes Bonetta)
Bridges
Through My Eyes (Ruby Bridges)
Coles
The Story of Ruby Bridges
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Marshall
Lowery
Brackett
Collins
Everett
Hamilton
Adair
Aliki
Bolden
Feinstein
Rogers
Rustad
Wellman
Ferris
Ritz
Clark
Borden
Fisher
Grimes
Johnson
Weatherford
Hoose
Woods
Fradin
Yates
Hill
Delany
Adler
Bontemps
Douglass
Ruby Bridges
One More Valley, One More Hill: The Story of Aunt Clara Brown
John Brown
John Brown and the Fight Against Slavery
John Brown: One Man Against Slavery
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
George Washington Carver
A Weed Is a Flower: The Life of George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver
Read about George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver: Nature’s Trailblazer
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver
Demanding Justice: A Story about Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Ray Charles
Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement
Fly High! The Story of Bessie Coleman
Brave Bessie: Flying Free
Talkin’ about Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman
She Dared to Fly: Bessie Coleman
Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Bill Cosby, Making America Laugh and Learn
5,000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft’s Flight from Slavery
Prudence Crandall: Woman of Courage
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years
A Picture Book of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass: Slave, Fighter, Freeman
Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by
Himself
DuBois
There Was Once a Slave…The Heroic Story of Frederick Douglass
Lutz
Frederick Douglass
McCurdy
Escape from Slavery: The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass in His Own
Words
Russell
Frederick Douglass
Schomp
Frederick Douglass: He Fought for Freedom
Cobblestone W.E.B. DuBois, 1868-1963
Hamilton
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography
Gentry
Paul Laurence Dunbar
McKissack
Paul Laurence Dunbar: A Poet to Remember
Schultz
Paul Laurence Dunbar: Black Poet Laureate
Otfinoski
Marian Wright Edelman: Defender of Children’s Rights
Cobblestone Duke Ellington: A Musical Genius
Frankl
Duke Ellington
Pinkney
Duke Ellington
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Venezia
Cameron
Lyons
Kliment
Hilton
Pfeifer
Longsworth
Krebs
Yates
Stauffacher
Gourse
Winter
Blue
Colman
Rubel
Haizlip
Duke Ellington
The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano
Painting Dreams: Minnie Evans, Visionary Artist
Ella Fitzgerald
Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper: “Buffalo Soldier”
Henry O. Flipper
I, Charlotte Forten, Black and Free
A Day in the Life of a Colonial Sailmaker (James Forten)
Amos Fortune, Free Man
Nothing but Trouble: The Story of Althea Gibson
Dizzy Gillespie and the Birth of Bebop
Dizzy
Whoopi Goldberg: Entertainer
Fannie Lou Hamer and the Fight for the Vote
Fannie Lou Hamer: From Sharecropping to Politics
The Sweet the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White (Shirlee
Taylor Haizlip
Ruffin
Sally Hemings
Nelson
Ain’t Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry
Armentrout Matthew Henson
Gilman
Matthew Henson
Johnson
Onward: A Photobiography of African-American Polar Explorer
Matthew Henson
Weatherford I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer
Cooper
Coming Home: From the Life of Langston Hughes
Dunham
Langston Hughes: Young Black Poet
Footsteps
Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance
McKissack
Langston Hughes: Great American Poet
Myers
Langston Hughes: Poet of His People
Rummel
Langston Hughes
Walker
Langston Hughes: American Poet
Lyons
Sorrow’s Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston
Miller
Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree
Porter
Jump at De Sun: The Story of Zora Neale Hurston
Yates
Zora Neale Hurston: A Storyteller’s Life
Chaplik
Up with Hope: A Biography of Jesse Jackson
Fleischner
I Was Born a Slave: The Story of Harriet Jacobs
Brill
Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad
Lanier
Jefferson’s Children: The Story of One American Family
Jemison
Find Where the Wind Goes: Moments from My Life (Mae Jemison)
Sakurai
Mae Jemison, Space Scientist
Egypt
James Weldon Johnson
McKissack
James Weldon Johnson: “Lift Every Voice and Sing”
Gutman
Larry Johnson, King of the Court
Green
A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie “Peanut” Johnson
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Everett
Hasday
Berger
Gutman
Aaseng
Cohen
Preston
Johnson
McNair
Roberts
Armentrout
Mattern
Rhodes
Shange
Adler
Bains
Bolden
Bray
Farris
Feinstein
Graves
Hakim
Haskins
Jakoubek
Livingston
Lowery
McKissack
Marzollo
Michelson
Rappaport
Ringgold
Schloredt
Sexton
Shuker
Smith
Summer
Winget
Jones
Haskins
Hill
Penn
Bolden
Li’l Sis and Uncle Willie: A Story Based on the Life and Paintings
of William H. Johnson
James Earl Jones
Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan: Basketball Champ
Florence Griffith Joyner: Dazzling Olympian
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Scott Joplin
Barbara Jordan: Congresswoman
Barbara Jordan: African American Politician
Barbara Jordan, the Great Lady from Texas
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King: Civil Rights Activist
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott
A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King
M.L.K.: Journey of a King
Martin Luther King
March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
Read about Martin Luther King, Jr.
I Have a Dream: The Story Behind Martin Luther King Jr.’s Most
Famous Speech
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the March Toward Freedom
The Life and Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let Freedom Ring: A Ballad of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King Day
Martin Luther King, Jr., A Man to Remember
Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King
As Good as Anybody: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua
Heschel’s Amazing March Toward Freedom
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
My Dream of Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King, Jr.: America’s Great Nonviolent Leader in the
Struggle for Human Rights
Let’s Meet Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The March on Washington (Martin Luther King)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beyonce Knowles
Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights
John Lewis: From Freedom Rider to Congressman
Nat Love: African American Cowboy
Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl
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Coleman
The Riches of Oseola McCarty
McCarty
Oseola McCarty’s Simple Wisdom for Rich Living
Towle
The Real McCoy: A Picture Book About Inventor Elijah McCoy
Folsom
Black Cowboy: The Life and Legend of George McJunkin
Cooper
Mandela: From the Life of the South African Statesman
Denenberg
Nelson Mandela: “No Easy Walk to Freedom”
Faces
Nelson Mandela: Voice of Human Rights
Holland
Nelson Mandela
Keller
Tree Shaker: The Story of Nelson Mandela
McDonough Peaceful Protest: The Life of Nelson Mandela
Strazzabosco Learning About Forgiveness from the Life of Nelson Mandela
Footsteps
Thurgood Marshall and Civil Rights
Greene
Thurgood Marshall: First African-American Supreme Court Justice
Hess
Thurgood Marshall: The Fight for Equal Justice
McLeese
Thurgood Marshall
Matzeliger
Shoes for Everyone: A Story About Jan Matzeliger
Govenar/Mays Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter (Osceola Mays)
Govenar, ed. Stompin’ at the Savoy: The Story of Norma Miller
Nickens
Walking the Log: Memories of a Southern Childhood (Bessie Nickens)
Carlton
Barack Obama: An American Story
Edwards
Barack Obama: An American Story
Ford
Barack
Gormley
Barack Obama: Our 44th President
Grimes
Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope
LIFE Mag.
The American Journey of Barack Obama
Marks
President Barack Obama
NY Times
Obama: The Historic Journey
Wheeler
Barack Obama: 44th President of the United States
Colbert
Michelle Obama: An American Story
Rekela
Hakeem Olajuwon: Tower of Power
Adler
A Picture Book of Jesse Owens
McKissack Jesse Owens: Olympic Star
Weatherford Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive
Macht
Satchel Paige
Shirley
Satchel Paige
Frankl
Charlie Parker, Musician
Rappaport
Freedom River (John Parker)
Adler
A Picture Book of Rosa Parks
Celsi
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Greenfield
Rosa Parks
McLeese
Rosa Parks
Parks
Rosa Parks: My Story
Ringgold
If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks
Shores
Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Pioneer
Weidt
Rosa Parks
Pinkney
Bill Pickett: Rodeo-Ridin’ Cowboy
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Blue
Williams
Nelson
Rembert
Blakely
Ringgold
Turner
Ehrlich
Footsteps
Greenfield
Hamilton
Adler
Dingle
Feinstein
Frost
Grabowski
McLeese
O’Connor
Robinson
Robinson
Schaefer
Biracree
Krull
Cooper
Gutman
Scott
Fradin
Wisniewski
Swoopes
Parker
Mangal
Thornton
Rockwell
Adler
Brezina
Ferris
Krass
Lutz
McKissack
Mattern
Ortiz
Pinkney
Rockwell
Colin Powell: Straight to the Top
Leontyne Price: Opera Superstar
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy
U.S. Marshall
Don’t Hold Me Back: My Life and Art (Winfred Rembert)
Condoleezza Rice
Talking to Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold
Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson: The Life and Times of a Free Black Man
Jackie Robinson: He Was the First
First in the Field: Baseball Hero Jackie Robinson
Read About Jackie Robinson
Let’s Meet Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson and the Story of All-Black Baseball
Promises To Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America
Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson
Wilma Rudolph
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest
Woman
From Slave to Civil War Hero: The Life and Times of Robert Smalls
Emmitt Smith, NFL Super Runner
Sylvia Stark, a Pioneer
My Family Shall Be Free! The Life of Peter Still
Sundiata: Lion King of Mali
Bounce Back (Sheryl Swoopes)
Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum
Mildred Taylor
The Ditchdigger’s Daughters: A Black Family’s Astonishing Success
Story (Yvonne S. Thornton)
Open the Door to Liberty! A Biography of Toussaint L’Ouverture
A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” Speech
Walking the Road to Freedom (Sojourner Truth)
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman?
Sojourner Truth: Early Abolitionist
Sojourner Truth, a Self-Made Woman
Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride
Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth
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Roop
Whalin
Adler
Allen
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth
A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free
Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War
Appleseeds Harriet Tubman
Benjamin
Young Harriet Tubman: Freedom Fighter
Cobblestone Harriet Tubman: 1820?-1913: The Woman Called Moses
Epstein
Harriet Tubman: Guide to Freedom
Feinstein
Read about Harriet Tubman
Healy
Harriet Tubman: Conductor to Freedom
Koestler
The Story of Harriet Tubman
Lutz
Harriet Tubman
McGovern
Runaway Slave: The Story of Harriet Tubman
Petry
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
Schroeder
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman
Sterling
Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman
Sullivan
Harriet Tubman
Weatherford Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
Weidt
Harriet Tubman
Hahn
Alexander Twilight: Vermont’s African-American Pioneer
Footsteps
James VanDerZee: Harlem’s Photographer
Aller
Madam C.J. Walker
Colman
Madam C.J. Walker
Gentry
Alice Walker, Author
Lasky
Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker
McKissack
The Story of Booker T. Washington
Schaefer
Booker T. Washington
Cobblestone Ida B. Wells-Barnett, 1862-1931
Fradin
Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
Medearis
Princess of the Press: The Story of Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Fuller
Phillis Wheatley, America’s First Black Poetess
Richmond
Phillis Wheatley
Anderson
Rookie: Tamika Whitmore’s First Year in the WNBA
Barbour
Mr. Williams (J.W. Williams)
Aronson
Venus & Serena Williams
Asirvatham Venus Williams
Friedrich
Oprah Winfrey
McLeese
Oprah Winfrey
Nicholson
Oprah Winfrey
Kramer
Tiger Woods: Golfing to Greatness
Mattern
Tiger Woods
Stout
On the Course With Tiger Woods
Urban
Richard Wright
Collins
Malcolm X: Black Rage
Cwiklik
Malcolm X and Black Pride
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Footsteps
Myers
---Altman
Appleseeds
Beckman
---Bolden
Burns
Cook
Ellenport
---Footsteps
Footsteps
Footsteps
Fullen
Gault
Golenbock
Haber
Hansen
Hansen
Hardy
Harris
Haskins
Haskins
Haskins
Hayden
Hayden
Hayden
---Igus
Jackson
Martinello
Metcalf
Rennert
Rennert
Rennert
Rennert
Rennert
Rennert
Rennert
Rennert
Malcolm X
Malcolm X.: By Any Means Necessary
African American Biographies
Extraordinary Black Americans from Colonial to Contemporary Times
Hear Me Roar: Women Writers Raise Their Voices
Artists and Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
Black Leaders: Texans for Their Times
The Stories of Ten African-American Women
Black Starts in Orbit: NASA’s African American Astronauts
Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers
of Change
Head to Head Football: Emmitt Smith and Barry Sanders
The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America
to the Present
Hear Me Roar: Women Writers Raise Their Voices
Heroes of Early America
Playing to Win: Sports Heroes
Pathblazers: Eight People Who Made a Difference
The Home Run Kings (Hank Aaron, et.al.)
Teammates (Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese)
Black Pioneers of Science and Invention
African Princess: The Amazing Lives of Africa’s Royal Women
Women of Hope: African Americans Who Made a Difference
Extraordinary People of the Harlem Renaissance
Biography Today: Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers,
Modern African Leaders
Black Stars of the Harlem Renaissance: African Americans Who Lived
Their Dreams
One More River to Cross
Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions
7 African-American Scientists
9 African-American Inventors
11 African-American Doctors
Historic Black Women
Great Women in the Struggle
Black Women, Makers of History: A Portrait
A Personal History: The Afro-American Texans
African Americans: Their Impact on U.S. History
Jazz Stars
Profiles of Great Black Americans: Book of Firsts: Leaders of America
Profiles of Great Black Americans: Civil Rights Leaders
Profiles of Great Black Americans: Female Leaders:
Profiles of Great Black Americans: Female Writers
Profiles of Great Black Americans: Jazz Stars
Profiles of Great Black Americans: Male Writers
Profiles of Great Black Americans: Performing Artists
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Rennert
Rennert
Reynolds
Richardson
St. John
Sanders
Smith
Sullivan
Taylor
Taylor
Turner
Profiles of Great Black Americans: Pioneers of Discovery
Profiles of Great Black Americans: Shapers of America
And Still We Rise: Interviews with 50 Black Role Models
Great Black Americans
African-American Scientists
The Lives and Times of Black Dallas Women
Epic Lives: One Hundred Black Women Who Made a Difference
African American Women Scientists & Inventors
Black Abolitionists and Freedom Fighters
Black Civil Rights Champions
Take a Walk in Their Shoes
POETRY AND LITERATURE
Adoff
Black Out Loud: An Anthology of Modern Poems by Black
Americans
Adoff
My Black Me: A Beginning Book of Black Poetry
Adoff
The Poetry of Black America: Anthology of the 20th Century
Alexander
Miss Crandall’s School for Young Ladies & Little Misses of Color
Angelou
I Shall Not Be Moved
Angelou
Maya Angelou: Poems
Bloom
Black American Poets and Dramatists Before the Harlem Renaissance
Bloom
Black American Prose Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
Bloom
Langston Hughes: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide
Bloom
Modern Black American Poets and Dramatists
Bolden
Rock of Ages: A Tribute to the Black Church
Bontemps
Hold Fast to Dreams: Poems Old and New
Brooks
Bronzeville Boys and Girls
Bryan
Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry
Cullen
The Lost Zoo
Curry
Sweet Words So Brave: The Story of African American Literature
Dawes
I Saw Your Face
Dunbar
I Greet the Dawn: Poems
Feelings
Daydreamers
Feelings
Something on My Mind
Feelings
Soul Looks Back in Wonder
Giovanni, ed. Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat
Giovanni
Knoxville, Tennessee
Giovanni
Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister: Looking at the Harlem
Renaissance through Poems
Giovanni
Spin a Soft Black Song
Greenfield
Nathaniel Talking
Greenfield
Night on Neighborhood Street
Grimes
Hopscotch Love: A Family Treasury of Love Poems
Grimes
Stepping Out with Grandma Mac
Grimes
What Is Goodbye?
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Hudson
Huggins
Pass It On: African-American Poetry for Children
Voices from the Harlem Renaissance: Featuring Over 120
Selections from the Political Writings & Arts of the
Period
Hughes
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
Hughes
My People
Hughes
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Hughes
The Sweet and Sour Animal Book
Johnson
The Other Side: Shorter Poems
Jordan
Who Look at Me
Lawrence
Harriet and the Promised Land
Lewis
Black Cat Bone: The Life of Blues Legend Robert Johnson
Lewis
The Brothers’ War: Civil War Voices in Verse
Livingston
No Way of Knowing: Dallas Poems
McGill
In the Hollow of Your Hand: Slave Lullabies
---Make a Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African-American Poets
Medina
Love to Langston
Myers
Brown Angels: An Album of Pictures and Verse
Myers
Harlem
Myers
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices
Nelson
Carver: A Life in Poems
Nelson
A Wreath for Emmett Till
---The Palm of My Heart: Poetry of African American Children
Patton, ed.
Double-Take: The revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology
Perdomo
Visiting Langston
Richards
Keep Climbing, Girls
Rollins
Christmas Gif’: An Anthology of Christmas Poems, Songs, and
Stories Written By and About African-Americans
Shange
Ellington Was Not a Street
Shange
We Troubled the Waters
Spires
I Heard God Talking to Me: William Edmondson and His Stone Carvings
Steptoe
In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall: African-Americans Celebrating Fathers
Strickland
Families: Poems Celebrating the African American Experience
Strickland
Listen Children: An Anthology of Black Literature
Sullivan
Children of Promise: African-American Literature and Art for Young
People
Thomas
The Blacker the Berry
Thomas
Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea
Troupe
Little Stevie Wonder (includes CD)
Wall
Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Weatherford Birmingham, 1963
Wheatley
The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: A Native African and a Slave
Woodson
Locomotion
FOLKLORE
Aardema
Behind the Back of the Mountain: Black Folktales from Southern
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Africa
Aardema
Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion: A Swahili Tale
Aardema
Traveling to Tondo: A Tale of the Nkundo of Zaire
Aardema
What’s So Funny, Ketu? A Nuer Tale
Aardema
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale
Appiah
Ananse the Spider: Tales from an Ashanti Village
Arnott
African Myths and Legends
Bang
Wiley and the Hairy Man
Bernstein
The First Morning: An African Myth
Bryan
The Adventures of Aku
Bryan
Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum
Bryan
Beautiful Blackbird
Bryan
The Dancing Granny
Bryan
The Ox of the Wonderful Horns and Other African Folktales
Bryan
The Story of Lightning and Thunder
Courlander The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories
Courlander
The Crest and the Hide and Other African Stories of Heroes, Chiefs,
Bards, Hunters, Sorcerers, and Common People
Courlander The Hat-Shaking Dance and Other Tales from the Gold Coast
Courlander
Olode the Hunter and Other Tales from Nigeria
Cummings
Ananse and the Lizard: A West African Tale
Daly
Pretty Salma: A Little Red Riding Hood Story from Africa
DeSpain
Thirty-Three Multicultural Tales to Tell
Diop/Steptoe Mother Crocodile=Maman-Caiman
Goss
Talk That Talk: An Anthology of African American Storytelling
Green
Folktales and Fairy Tales of Africa
Haley
A Story, a Story: An African Tale
Hamilton
Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl
Hamilton
The Girl Who Spun Gold
Hamilton
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales
Hamilton
The People Could Fly
Hamilton
The People Could Fly: The Picture Book
Hamilton
A Ring of Tricksters: Animal Tales from American, the West Indies, and
Africa
Hamilton
When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing: The Adventures of Bruh
Sparrow, Sis Wren, and Their Friends
Harris
Brer Rabbit
Harris
The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus
Harris
The Favorite Uncle Remus
Harris
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings
Haskins, ed. The Headless Haunt and Other African-American Ghost Stories
Hurston
Lies and Other Tall Tales
Jensen
John Henry and His Mighty Hammer
Joseph
A Wave in Her Pocket: Stories from Trinidad
Kaula
African Village Folktales
Keats
John Henry: An American Legend
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Kurtz
Lester
Lester
Lester
Lester
Lester
Lester
Lester
Lyons
McDermott
McDermott
McGill
McGill
McKissack
McKissack
Parks
Parks
Parks
Paye
Robinson
San Souci
San Souci
San Souci
San Souci
Washington
Fire on the Mountain
Black Folktales
Further Tales of Uncle Remus
John Henry
The Knee-High Man and Other Tales
The Last Tales of Uncle Remus
More Tales of Uncle Remus
The Tales of Uncle Remus
Raw Head, Bloody Bones: African American Tales of the Supernatural
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti
The Magic Tree: A Tale from the Congo
Sure as Sunrise: Stories of Bruh Rabbit & His Walkin’ Talkin’ Friends
Way Up and Over Everything
The Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
A Piece of the Wind and Other Stories to Tell
Jump! The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
Jump Again! More Adventures of Brer Rabbit
Jump on Over! The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile
Singing Tales of Africa
Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella
The Faithful Friend
The Hired Hand: An African-American Folktale
The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South
A Pride of African Tales
ART AND MUSIC
Angelou
My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me
Bearden
A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present
Bernstein
Addy’s Craft Book: A Look at Crafts from the Past with Projects You
Can Make Today
Bolden
Wake Up Our Souls: A Celebration of Black American Artists
Bryan
Let It Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals
Butler
A Drawing in the Sand: A Story of African American Art
Cameron
Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold’s French Collection and
Other Story Quilts
Coen
The Black Man in Art
D’Amato
African Crafts for You to Make
Dillon
Jazz on a Saturday Night
Driskell
Two Centuries of Black American Art
Duggleby
Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence
---Elijah Pierce, Woodcarver
Feelings
Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo
Footsteps
Folk Art
Hunter
Talking with Tebe: Clementine Hunter, Memory Artist
Igus
Going Back Home: An Artist Returns to the South (Michele Wood)
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Lawrence
Leach
Livingston
Lyons
Lyons
Lyons
Naylor
Price
Rohmer
Rubin
Stein
Vlach
Wahlman
Webster
Wheat
The Great Migration: An American Story
I See You, I See Myself: The Young Life of Jacob Lawrence
Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980
Deep Blues: Bill Traylor, Self-Taught Artist
Starting Home: The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter
Stitching Stars: The Story Quilts of Harriet Powers
Black Images: The Art of West Africa
Made in West Africa
Honoring Our Ancestors: Pictures and Stories by Fourteen Artists
Art Against the Odds: From Slave Quilts to Prison Paintings
I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin
The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts
Signs & Symbols: African Images in African American Quilts
How to Draw Kwanzaa Symbols
Jacob Lawrence: The Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman Series of
1938-40
Wilson
Clementine Hunter, American Folk Artist
---At the Movies
Blue
The History of Gospel Music
Bryan
Walk Together Children: Black American Spirituals
Childress
When the Rattlesnake Sounds: A Play (Harriet Tubman)
Cobblestone The Jazz Sensation
Collier
Jazz: An American Saga
Dietz
Musical Instruments of Africa: Their Nature, Use, and Place in the Life
of a Deeply Musical People
Footsteps
Singin’ the Blues: Music with Feeling
Haskins
Black Music in America: A History Through Its People
Igus
I See the Rhythm
Johnson
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Langstaff
What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals
Lester
The Blues Singers: Ten Who Rocked the World
Monceaux
Jazz: My Music, My People
Press
A Multicultural Portrait of America’s Music
Quill
The History of the Blues
Raschka
Mysterious Thelonious (Thelonious Monk)
Ringgold
O Holy Night: Christmas with the Boys Choir of Harlem
Silverman
Traditional Black Music: Ragtime Song and Dance
Silverman
Traditional Black Music: Slave Songs
Silverman
Traditional Black Music: Songs of Protest and Civil Rights
Silverman
Traditional Black Music: Spirituals
Silverman
Traditional Black Music: Work Songs
Thomas
All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African American Spirituals
Thomas
Hush Songs: African American Lullabies
Weatherford The Sound that Jazz Makes
13
OTHER NONFICTION
---African American Families and Settlements of Dallas: On the Inside
Looking Out, Vol. II; Exhibition, Family Memoirs, Personality
Profiles and Community Essays
---The Afro-American Texans
Alderman
Rum, Slaves, and Molasses: The Story of New England’s Triangular
Trade
Alexander
Gingersnaps: Daily Affirmations for African American children and
Families
Alexander
The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest
Altman
The Pullman Strike of 1894: Turning Point for American Labor
Amran
African-American Inventors
Aronson
Race: A History Beyond Black and White
Appleseeds Exploring the Mississippi
Banks
The Kwanzaa Coloring Book
Bausum
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the
Civil Rights Movement
---Before Freedom Came: African-American Life in the Antebellum South
Bernstein
Addy’s Cookbook: A Peek at Dining in the Past with Meals You Can
Cook Today
---Black Dallas Remembered
Blockson
The Underground Railroad
Bolden
Cause: Reconstruction America, 1863-1877
Bolden
Tell All the Children Our Story: Memories and Mementos of Being
Young and Black in America
Boyd
We Shall Overcome (includes 2 CD’s)
Branch
Juneteenth: Freedom Day
Brewer
A History of the Dallas High School for Negroes
Brill
The Underground Railroad
Brimner
Birmingham Sunday
Brooks
African Americans in the Civil War
Brooks
The Tuskegee Airmen
---Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
Buckmaster Flight to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad
Bullard
Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who
Died in the Struggle
Candaele
Bound for Glory: From the Great Migration to the Harlem Renaissance,
1910-1930
Carson
Underground Railroad for Kids: From Slavery to Freedom
Chambers
The Harlem Renaissance
---Chicken Soup for the African American Soul: Celebrating and Sharing
Our Culture One Story at a Time
Chocolate
Kwanzaa
Chocolate
My First Kwanzaa Book
Clinton
The Black Soldier: 1492 to the Present
Cobblestone African American Education: A Proud Heritage
14
Cobblestone
Cobblestone
Cobblestone
Cobblestone
Cobblestone
Cobblestone
Cobblestone
Cobblestone
Cobblestone
Cobblestone
Colbert
African American Inventors
African American Pioneers and Homesteaders
Americans Abroad
The Antislavery Movement
Black History Month: The Struggle for Rights
Buffalo Soldiers
The Harlem Renaissance
The NAACP
Tuskegee Airmen
The Underground Railroad and the Antislavery Movement
Dear Dr. King: Letters from Today’s Children to Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.
Collier
Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow, 1864-1896
Cooper
Bound for the Promised Land: The Great Black Migration
Cooper
Kwanzaa
Cooper
Playing America’s Game: The Story of Negro League Baseball
Copage
Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Culture and Cooking
Counts
A Life Is More than a Moment: The Desegregation of Little Rock’s
Central High
Cox
Come All You Brave Soldiers
Crew
Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration 1915-1940
Davis
Black Heroes of the American Revolution
Dillon
To Everything There Is a Season: Verses from Ecclesiastes
Dornfeld
The Turning Tide, 1948-1956: From the Desegregation of the Armed
Forces to the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Doyle
Beyond the Fields: Slavery at Middleton Place
Duncan
The National Civil Rights Museum Celebrates Everyday People
Dunn
The Civil Rights Movement
Durham
Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
Ellis
Our Stories, Our Songs: African Children Talk About AIDS
Faces
Maroons: Escaped Slave Communities
Falstein
Black Americans from Africa to the 80’s: Classroom Activities
Flanagan
Reconstruction: A Primary Source History of the Struggle to Unite the
North and South After the Civil War
Footsteps
Amazing Inventors
Footsteps
Black Churches
Footsteps
Blacks and the Military
Footsteps
Science Pioneers
Footsteps
Underground Railroad
Fox-Genovese Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old
South
Fradin
Bound for the North Star: True Stories of Fugitive Slaves
Freedman
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Freeman
The Mule Train: A Journey of Hope Remembered
Gates
The Classic Slave Narratives
Gayle
Kwanzaa: An African American Holiday
15
Goodman
Gorrell
Goss
Govenar
Govenar
Greenwood
Hamilton
Hansen
Hasday
Haskins
Haskins
Haskins
Haskins
Haskins
Haskins
Haskins
Hauser
Hausman
Heltshe
Henry
Hickman
Hill
Hintz
Hoobler
Hoyt
Hughes
Hughes
Hurmence
Hurmence
Jeness
Johnson
Johnston
Kalman
Katz
Katz
Katz
Kent
Kent
Black Bondage: The Life of Slaves in the South
North Star to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad
It’s Kwanzaa Time!
Deep Ellum and Central Track: Where the Black and White Worlds of
Dallas Converged
Portraits of Community: African American Photography in Texas
The Last Safe House: A Story of the Underground Railroad
Many Thousands Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom
Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York’s African
American Burial Ground
The Tuskegee Airmen
Black, Blue, and Gray: African Americans in the Civil War
The Day Martin Luther King, Jr. Was Shot: A Photo History of the Civil
Rights Movement
Following Freedom’s Star: The Story of the Underground Railroad
The Harlem Renaissance
The March on Washington
Out of the Darkness: The Story of Blacks Moving North, 1890-1940
Separate, but Not Equal: The Dream and the Struggle
Great Ambitions, 1896-1909: From the “Separate but Equal” Doctrine
to the Birth of the NAACP
African-American Alphabet: A Celebration of African-American and
West Indian Culture, Custom, Myth, and Symbol
Multicultural Explorations: Joyous Journeys with Books
Forever Free: From the Emancipation Proclamation to the Civil Rights
Bill of 1875
Behold the People: R.C. Hickman’s Photographs of Black Dallas,
1949-1961
Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance
Kwanzaa: Why We Celebrate It the Way We Do
The African American Family Album
Celebrating Kwanzaa
The Book of Rhythms
A Pictorial History of African Americans: From 1619 to the Present
Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember: Twenty-Seven Oral
Histories of Former South Carolina Slaves
Slavery Time When I Was Chillun
Come Home with Me: A Multicultural Treasure Hunt
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
Kwanzaa
A Slave Family
Black People Who Made the Old West
Black Women of the Old West
Proudly Red and Black: Stories of African and Native Americans
African-Americans in the Thirteen Colonies
The Freedom Riders
16
King
King
Lankers
Latham
Leckie
Lester
Lester
Lester
Levine
Levine
Loeper
Lutz
Lyon
McKissack
McKissack
McKissack
McKissack
McKissack
McPherson
McWhorter
Mardo
Marsalis
Medearis
Meltzer
Meltzer
Meltzer
Meltzer
Mettger
Miller
Miller
Morrison
------Myers
Myers
Nelson
Nelson
N’namdi
Nofi
Osborne
I Have a Dream
Toward the Promised Land, 1851-1861: From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to
the Onset of the Civil War
I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America
The Dred Scott Decision, March 6, 1857: Slavery and the Supreme
Court’s Self-Inflicted Wound
The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West
From Slave Ship to Freedom Road
Let’s Talk About Race
To Be a Slave
Freedom’s Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories
If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad
Meet the Webbers of Philadelphia
The History of the Black Church
Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters
The Civil Rights Movement in America from 1865 to the Present
Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States
A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter
Rebels Against Slavery
Marching Toward Freedom: Blacks in the Civil War, 1861-1865
A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968
Braving the New World, 1619-1784: From the Arrival of the Enslaved
Africans to the End of the American Revolution
Jazz A-B-Z: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits
Come This Far to Freedom: A History of African Americans
All Times, All Peoples: A World History of Slavery
The Black Americans: A History in Their Own Words
In Their Own Words: A History of the American Negro
They Came in Chains: The Story of the Slave Ships
Till Victory Is Won: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
The Little Rock Nine: Young Champions for School Integration
The 1963 March on Washington: Speeches and Songs for Civil Rights
Remember: The Journey to School Integration
Moving Back Barriers: The Legacy of Carter G. Woodson, 1875-1950
My Folks Don’t Want Me to Talk About Slavery (edited by Belinda
Hurmence)
Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom
One More River to Cross: An African American Photo Album
Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story of the Greatest All-Girl Swing Band in
the World
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
Celebrating Kwanzaa: An African American Holiday
The Underground Railroad and the Civil War
Traveling the Freedom Road: From Slavery & the Civil War Through
Reconstruction
17
Partridge
Paulson
Payton
Pelz
Piggins
Pinkney
Pinkney
Porter
Powledge
Prather
---Press
Prince
Provencal
Randall
Rappaport
Rappaport
Rappaport
Reef
Rennert
Rhym
Riley
---Robertson
Robinson
Rochelle
Ross
Saint James
Sanders
Sanders
Sanna
Schlissel
Shelton
Siegel
Sirimarco
Sioux
Sinnott
Sisson
------Smead
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow
Weary
Days of Sorrow, Years of Glory: 1831-1850
African Americans
Black Heroes of the Wild West
A Multicultural Portrait of the Civil War
Seven Candles for Kwanzaa
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
Kwanzaa
We Shall Overcome: Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement
From Slave to Statesman: The Legacy of Joshua Houston, Servant to Sam
Houston
Prayin’ to Be Set Free (edited by Andrew Waters)
A Multicultural Portrait of Learning in America
A History of Dallas from a Different Perspective
A Child’s Day in a Ghanaian City
A Taste of Heritage: New African-American Cuisine
Escape from Slavery: Five Journeys to Freedom
No More! Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance
This School Is Not White! A True Story of the Civil Rights Movement
Buffalo Soldiers
African American Answer Book: Science & Discovery
The NAACP
The Negro Leagues
Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches
The Complete Kwanzaa Celebration Book
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It
Witnesses to Freedom: Young People Who Fought for Civil Rights
Crafts for Kwanzaa
The Gifts of Kwanzaa
America’s Black Founders: Revolutionary Heroes & Early Leaders with
21 Activities
D Is for Drinking Gourd: An African American Alphabet
American Regional Cooking Library: African American
Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West
Child of the Civil Rights Movement
The Year They Walked: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
American Voices from the Civil Rights Movement
African American Migration
Welcome to Addy’s World, 1864: Growing Up During America’s Civil
War
The Gathering Storm: From the Framing of the Constitution to Walker’s
Appeal, 1787-1829
Slave Narratives: The Journey to Freedom
The Slave Narratives of Texas
The Afro-Americans
18
Smith
---Stanley
Sterling
Stevenson
Stimpson
Stokes
Stovall
Tapper
Tate
Teal
Telgen
Thompson
Tobin
------Walker
Walter
Walter
---Webb
Webb
Weisbrot
Westridge
Wexler
Wormser
Wukovits
Zeinert
Zell
Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson
Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Celebration of Black Prayer
Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California
We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, December, 1955; American Blacks
Demand an End to Segregation
My Remembers: A Black Sharecropper’s Recollections of the Depression
Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and Me: A Memoir
by John A. Stokes
The Buffalo Soldiers
Voices from Slavery’s Past: Yearning To Be Heard
The Negro in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg
Lest We Forget: Why We Celebrate
Brown v. Board of Education
Hate Groups
Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground
Railroad
Underground Railroad
Understanding the Little Rock Crisis: An Exercise in Remembrance
and Reconciliation
Remember Little Rock: The Time, the People, the Stories
Kwanzaa: A Family Affair
Mississippi Challenge
We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard (edited by Belinda Hurmence)
The Raid on Harper’s Ferry, October 6, 1859: A Brutal Skirmish Widens
the Rift Between North and South
Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil-Rights Days
Marching Toward Freedom, 1957-1965: From the Founding of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference to the Assassination
of Malcolm X
Kids Explore America’s African-American Heritage
The Civil Rights Movement: An Eyewitness History
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
The Black Cowboys
The Amistad Slave Revolt and American Abolition
A Multicultural Portrait of the American Revolution
AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS
---America’s Civil Rights Movement (video)
Anderson
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation : The
Kingdom on the Waves (11 cds)
---The Art of Romare Bearden: A National Gallery of Art Presentation
(DVD)
---Black History, Black Vision: The Visionary Image in Texas (video)
Bryan
Ashley Bryan: Poems & Folktales (2 audiocassettes)
19
------------Hine
---------Hughes
McGill
---Marsalis
------Nat’l. Geog.
---------------Torrence
----
Buffalo Soldiers: The True Story of Our Country’s First Black War
Heroes (video)
Duke Ellington: 16 Most Requested Songs (CD)
Faith Ringgold: The Last Story Quilt (video)
Faith Ringgold: Paints Crown Heights (video)
Notable Black Women in American History Card Game
Journey to Little Rock: The Untold Story of Minnijean Brown Trickey
(video)
Langston Hughes Reads (audiocassette tape)
Learning to Appreciate Diversity (video)
Langston Hughes Reads (sound recording)
Flying Africans (audiocassette)
Ma Rainey: The Mother of the Blues, 1923-1928 (CD)
Marsalis on Music, with Seiji Ozawa (4 videos)
Martin Luther King “I Have a Dream” (video)
Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks (video)
Race (video)
The Shadow of Hate: A History of Intolerance in America (video)
Shout Sister Shout: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Original Soul Sister
(4 CDs)
Starting Small: Teaching Tolerance in Preschool and the Early Grades
(video)
Stories from the Black Tradition (video)
Stories Under the African Skies: Stories in the African American
Tradition (audiocassette tape)
Legends from the Black Tradition (audiocassette tape)
Voices & Visions: Langston Hughes (video)
REFERENCE MATERIALS
---African American Biography (4 volumes)
---African American Voices (2 volumes)
---Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American
Experience
Allen
Cultural Awareness for Children
Comer
Raising Black Children: Questions and Answers for Parents and Teachers
Davis
Contributions of Black Women to America
Edwards
Children of the Dream: The Psychology of Black Success
Fine, et.al.
Off White: Readings on Power, Privilege, and Resistance
Harris
Teaching Multicultural Literature in Grades K-8
---Historic Speeches of African Americans
Kincheloe, ed. White Reign: Deploying Whiteness in America
Mullane
Words To Make My Dream Children Live: A Book of African American
Quotations
O’Hearn, ed. Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural
Rand
Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African-American Children’s Books
Rochman
Against Borders: Promoting Books for a Multicultural World
20
Rothlein
Sanders
---------Spring
Read It Again! Multicultural Books for the Primary Grades
D Is for Drinking Gourd: An African American Alphabet
Slavery Throughout History: Almanac
Slavery Throughout History: Biographies
Slavery Throughout History: Primary Sources
Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: A Brief History of the
Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States
---Venture Into Cultures: A Resource Book of Multicultural Materials and
Programs
Wijeyesinghe New Perspectives on Racial Identity Development: A Theoretical and
Practical Anthology
STORY COLLECTIONS
Bolden
Rites of Passage: Stories About Growing Up by Black Writers from
Around the World
Collier
A Treasury of African-American Christmas Stories
Jaffe
A Cow of No Color: Riddle Stories and Justice Tales from Around the
World
Lester
Long Journey Home: Stories from Black History
McKissack
The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
Myers
145th Street: Short Stories
Naidoo
Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope
Porter
Addy’s Short Story Collection
Rochman
Somehow Tenderness Survives: Stories of Southern Africa
TEEN FICTION
Anderson
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: The Pox
Party
Anderson
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: The
Kingdom on the Waves
Codell
Sahara Special
Crowe
Mississippi Trial, 1955
Curtis
Bucking the Sarge
Draper
Copper Sun
Flake
The Skin I’m In
Hamilton
Junius Over Far
Hamilton
A White Romance
Hentoff
Jazz Country
Hooks
Circle of Fire
Johnson
Bird
Johnson
The First Part Last
Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees
Lester
This Strange New Feeling
Lyon
Sonny’s House of Spies
Myers
Fallen Angels
Myers
Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff
21
Myers
Myers
Myers
Myers
Myers
Myers
Myers
Myers
Myers
Myers
Porte
Pullman
Randall
Smith
Weatherford
Woodson
Woodson
Woodson
Hoops: A Novel
It Ain’t All for Nothin’
The Mouse Rap
The Nicholas Factor
Riot
Scorpions
Shooter
Somewhere in the Darkness
Won’t Know Till I Get There
The Young Landlords
I Only Made Up the Roses
The Broken Bridge: A Novel
The Almost Year
Skeeter
Becoming Billie Holiday
After Tupac & D Foster
Behind You
Hush
JUNIOR FICTION
Anderson
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation :
The Pox Party
Anderson
A Williamsburg Household
Armstrong
Sounder
Bacon
Sophie Scrooby Preserved
Banks
Abraham’s Battle: A Novel of Gettysburg
Barrett
The Lilies of the Field
Beatty
Who Comes with Cannons?
Berleth
Samuel’s Choice
Bledsoe
The Big Bike Race
Bonham
Mystery of the Fat Cat
Bontemps
The Pasteboard Bandit
Boyd
Circle of Gold
Brooks
The Moves Make the Man
Brown
Morning Glory Afternoon
Buckley
The Day Mrs. Roosevelt Came to Town
Cameron
Julian, Dream Doctor
Cameron
Julian, Secret Agent
Cameron
More Stories Julian Tells
Cameron
The Stories Julian Tells
Carbone
Stealing Freedom
Carey
Two for Texas: The Extraordinary Story of Kian and Jane Long
Childress
Rainbow Jordan and Company
Clements
The Jacket
Codell
Vive la Paris
Cohen
213 Valentines
22
Coleman
Coleman
Collier
Collier
Collier
Collier
Coppage
Curtis
Curtis
Dell
Draper
Draper
Draper
Draper
Draper
Draper
Duey
Elliott
Farmer
Fox
Fuqua
Gayle
Going
Greene
Greene
Gutman
Gutman
Hamilton
Hamilton
Hamilton
Hamilton
Hamilton
Hamilton
Hamilton
Hamilton
Hamilton
Hamilton
Hamilton
Hamilton
Hamilton
Hamilton
Hamilton
Hamilton
Hamilton
Hamilton
Circle of Fire
Mystery of the Dark Tower
Jump Ship to Freedom
War Comes to Willy Freeman
Who Is Carey?
With Every Drop of Blood
A Kwanzaa Fable
Bud, Not Buddy
The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963
Aquila’s Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad
Double Dutch
Forged by Fire
Out of My Mind
Sassy : The Birthday Storm
Sassy : Little Sister Is NOT My Name!
Tears of the Tiger
Flood Mississippi, 1927
Flying South
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
The Slave Dancer
Darby
Kai: A Big Decision, Africa, 1400
The Liberation of Gabriel King
Get on Out of Here, Philip Hall
Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe
Jackie and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure
Satch & Me
The All Jahdu Storybook
The Bells of Christmas
Bluish
Cousins
Drylongso
Dustland
The Gathering
The House of Dies Drear
Jaguarundi
Justice and Her Brothers
A Little Love
M.C. Higgins, the Great
The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl
The Mystery of Drear House: The Conclusion of the Dies Drear
Chronicle
Plain City
The Planet of Junior Brown
The Time-Ago Tales of Jadhu
Time Pieces: The Book of Times
23
Hamilton
Hamilton
Hansen
Hansen
Hansen
Hansen
Hesse
Holland
Holt
Hoobler
Hurmence
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Kurtz
Lasky
Lester
Levine
Little
Lowry
Lutz
McKissack
McKissack
McKissack
McKissack
McKissack
McQuinn
Marino
Martin
Mathis
Mathis
Mead
Medearis
Meyer
Myers
Myers
Myers
Myers
Naidoo
Naidoo
Naidoo
Napoli
Nixon
Willie Bea and the Time the Martian Landed
Zeely
The Gift-Giver
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed
Slave Girl
Out From This Place
Which Way Freedom?
Witness
Behind the Lines
Mister and Me
Next Stop, Freedom: The Story of a Slave Girl
Dixie in the Big Pasture
A Cool Moonlight
Heaven
Toning the Sweep
The Storyteller’s Beads
True North
Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue
Dave at Night
Old Cat and the Kitten
Autumn Street
Escape from Slavery
Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration
North
Loved Best
Nzingha, Warrior Queen of Matamba
A Picture of Freedom: the Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont
Plantation, Virginia, 1859
Run Away Home
Lola Loves Stories
The Day that Elvis Came to Town: A Novel
Belle Teal
The Hundred Penny Box
Sidewalk Story
Junebug
What Did I Do To Deserve a Sister Like You?
White Lilacs
The Glory Field
The Journal of Joshua Loper, a Black Cowboy
The Journal of Scott Pendleton Myers, A World War II Soldier
The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner
Burn My Heart
Chain of Fire
Journey to Jo’burg: A South African Story
North
Caesar’s Story: 1759
24
Nixon
O’Dell
Paterson
Paulson
Pearsall
Peck
Pinkney
Pinkney
Porter
Porter
Porter
Porter
Porter
Porter
Pullman
Quattlebaum
Rinaldi
Rinaldi
Rinaldi
Rinaldi
Robinet
Robinet
Robinet
Robinet
Schmidt
Sebestyen
Smith
Stolz
Stolz
Tate
Taylor
Taylor
Taylor
Taylor
Taylor
Taylor
Taylor
Taylor
Taylor
Taylor
Taylor
Thomas
Thomson
Thomson
Thomson
David’s Search
My Name Is Not Angelica
Jip: His Story
Nightjohn
Trouble Don’t Last
The River Between Us
Abraham Lincoln: Letters from a Slave Girl
Silent Thunder: A Civil War Story
Addy Learns a Lesson: A School Story
Addy Saves the Day: A Summer Story
Addy’s Surprise: A Christmas Story
Changes for Addy: A Winter Story
Happy Birthday, Addy! A Springtime Story
Meet Addy: An American Girl
The Broken Bridge: A Novel
Jackson Jones and the Puddle of Thorns
The Education of Mary: A Little Miss of Color, 1832
Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Whealey
Taking Liberty: The Story of Oney Judge, George Washington’s
Runaway Slave
Wolf by the Ears
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
Twelve Travelers, Twenty Horses
Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues
Washington City Is Burning
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Words by Heart
Keeping the Night Watch
Go Fish
Stealing Home
The Secret of Gumbo Grove
The Friendship
The Gold Cadillac
The Land
Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Mississippi Bridge
The Road to Memphis
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Song of the Trees
The Well: David’s Story
The Cay
Timothy of the Cay
Kai: A Mission for Her Village, Africa, 1440
Keena Ford and the Field Trip Mix-Up
Keena Ford and the Second Grade Mix-Up
Keena Ford and the Secret Journal Mix-Up
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Wagner
Walter
Walter
Welch
Williams
Wisler
Woods
Woodson
Woodson
Wyeth
Wyeth
Young
J.T.
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World
Have a Happy--: A Novel
Kai: The Lost Statue, Africa, 1440
Scooter
The Raid
The Red Rose Box
Miracle’s Boys
Peace, Locomotion
Ginger Brown: The Nobody Boy
Ginger Brown: Too Many Houses
Learning By Heart
EASY FICTION
Aardema
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
Ackerman
By the Dawn’s Early Light
Alexander
The Fortune-Tellers
Allen
Dancing in the Wings
Appelbaum Cocoa Ice
Aston
The Moon Over Star
Bang
One Fall Day
Bearden
Li’l Dan, the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story
Belton
From Miss Ida’s Porch
Bildner
The Halleluhah Flight
Bliss
Luke on the Loose: A Toon Book
Bluemle
How Do You Wokka-Wokka?
Bradby
Momma, Where Are You From?
Bradley
More Than Anything Else
Brenner
Wagon Wheels
Bryan
The Cat’s Purr
Buckley
Grandfather and I
Buckley
Grandmother and I
Burden
Imani’s Gift at Kwanzaa
Caines
Abby
Caines
I Need a Lunch Box
Caines
Just Us Women
Campbell
I Get So Hungry
Carbone
Night Running: How James Escaped with the Help of His Faithful Dog
Carney-Nunes Nappy
Clary
A Sweet, Sweet Basket
Cole
Am I a Color Too?
Coleman
The Glass Bottle Tree
Collier
Uptown
Cosby
The Best Way to Play
Cosby
The Meanest Thing to Say
Cosby
Super-Fine Valentine
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Cosby
Crews
Crews
Crews
Cunnane
Curtis
Daly
Davol
Day
DeVeaux
Dillon
Edmonds
Elliott
Enderle
The Treasure Hunt
Bigmama’s
Shortcut
You Are Here
For You Are a Kenyan Child
The Bat Boy and His Violin
Not So Fast
How Snake Got His Hiss: An Original Tale
The Lion’s Whiskers: An Ethiopian Folktale
An Enchanted Hair Tale
Rap a Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles—Think of That!
An African Princess
Bird
Something’s Happening on Calabash Street: A Story with Thirteen
Recipes
English
Hot Day on Abbott Avenue
English
Speak to Me (And I Will Listen Between the Lines)
Fields
The Green Lion of Zion Street
Fitzgerald
A Tisket, A Tasket
Flournoy
Celie and the Harvest Fiddler
Flournoy
The Patchwork Quilt
Flournoy
Tanya’s Reunion
Frame
Yesterday I Had the Blues
French
Anancy and Mr. Dry Bone
Gray
A Country Far Away
Gray
Dear Willie Rudd
Greenberg
Aunt Lilly’s Laundromat
Greenfield
First Pink Light
Greenfield
Grandpa’s Face
Greenfield
Me & Neesie
Grifalconi
Ain’t Nobody a Stranger to Me
Grifalconi
Darkness and the Butterfly
Grifalconi
The Village of Round and Square Houses
Grifalconi
The Village That Vanished
Grimes /Bryan Aneesa Lee and the Weaver’s Gift
Grimes
Danitra Brown, Class Clown
Grimes
Danitra Brown Leaves Town
Guy
Billy the Great
Hadithi
Tricky Tortoise
Hamanaka
Peace Crane
Harrington
The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County
Harrington
Going North
Hartfield
Me and Uncle Romie: A Story Inspired by the Life and Art of Romare
Bearden
Hesse
Come On, Rain
Hest
Mr. George Baker
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Hoffman
Hoffman
Hoffman
Hoffman
Hooks
Hooks
Hopkinson
Hopkinson
Hopkinson
Hort
Howard
Howard
Howard
Hurston
Igus
Igus
Isadora
Isadora
Jackson
James
Jonas
Jonas
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Joose
Joose
Juster
Katz
Keats
Keats
Keats
Keats
Keats
Keats
Keats
Keats
Ketteman
Krebs
Kroll
Kroll
Kroll
Amazing Grace
Boundless Grace
The Color of Home
Princess Grace
Freedom’s Fruit
Skin Again
A Band of Angels: A Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
Under the Quilt of Night
How Many Stars in the Sky?
Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and Crab Cakes Later)
The Train to Lulu’s
Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys
The Six Fools
Two Mrs. Gibsons
When I Was Little
Ben’s Trumpet
Over the Green Hills
Somebody’s New Pajamas
Leon and Bob
Holes and Peeks
The Quilt
Grandma’s Hands
I Dream of Trains
Julius
My Mom Is My Show-and-Tell
Now Let Me Fly: The Story of a Slave Family
A Sweet Smell of Roses
When I Am Old With You
Hot City
Papa, Do You Love Me?
The Hello, Goodbye Window
The Colors of Us
Apt. 3
Goggles
Hi, Cat!
A Letter to Amy
Louie
Pet Show!
Peter’s Chair
Whistle for Willie
Not Yet, Yvette
We All Went on Safari: A Counting Journey through Tanzania
Africa Brothers and Sisters
Masai and I
Wood-Hoopoe Willie
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Kurtz
Kurtz
Kurtz
Lauture
Lee
Lessac
Lester
Lester
Lester
Lester
Levine
Lewin
Lewin
Lewin
Lewin
Lewin
Lindbergh
Little
Littlesugar
McBrier
McCully
McQuinn
McKissack
McKissack
McKissack
McKissack
McKissack
McKissack
McKissack
McKissack
McKissack
McKissack
McKissack
Medearis
Medearis
Medearis
Medearis
Medearis
Medearis
Medearis
Miller
Miller
Miller
Milway
Mitchell
Mitchell
Pulling the Lion’s Tail
River Friendly, River Wild
Water Hole Waiting
Running the Road to ABC
Please, Baby, Please
Caribbean Alphabet
Albidaro and the Mischievous Dream
Black Cowboy, Wild Horses: A True Story
Sam and the Tigers
What a Truly Cool World
Henry’s Freedom Box: The True Story from the Underground Railroad
Jafta
Jafta and the Wedding
Jafta: The Homecoming
Jafta’s Father
Jafta’s My Mother
Nobody Owns the Sky: The Story of “Brave Bessie” Coleman
I Can Do It by Myself
Freedom School, Yes!
Beatrice’s Goat
Wonder Horse: The True Story of the World’s Smartest Horse
Lola Loves Stories
The All-I’ll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll
Flossie and the Fox
Goin’ Someplace Special
The Honest-to-Goodness Truth
Ma Dear’s Aprons
A Million Fish—More or Less
Mirandy and Brother Wind
Monkey-Monkey’s Trick: Based on an African Folktale
Nettie Jo’s Friends
Precious and Boo Hag
Stitchin’ and Pullin’ a Gee’s Bend Quilt
Daisy and the Doll
The Freedom Riddle
The Ghost of Sifty Sifty Sam
Our People
Picking Peas for a Penny
Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story
The Singing Man: A West African Folktale
The Piano
Rent Party Jazz
Richard Wright and the Library Card
One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference
Hue Boy
Uncle Jed’s Barbershop
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Mollel
My Rows and Piles of Coins
Mollel
Subira Subira
Mollel
To Dinner, For Dinner
Monjo
The Drinking Gourd
Morninghouse Habari Gani? What’s the News? A Kwanzaa Story
Musgrove
The Spider Weaver: A Legend of Kente Cloth
Myers
Black Cat
Myers
Looking Like Me
Myers
The Story of the Three Kingdoms
Myers
Wings
Nelson
Almost to Freedom
Nelson
He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
Nelson
Who Will I Be, Lord?
Nolen
Harvey Potter’s Balloon Farm
Panahi
Bebop Express
Peete
My Brother Charlie
Perdomo
Visiting Langston
Pinkney
Back Home
Pinkney
Max Found Two Sticks
Pinkney
Read and Rise
Pinkney
The Sunday Outing
Polacco
Chicken Sunday
Polacco
Januarys Sparrow
Polacco
Mr. Lincoln’s Way
Polacco
Mrs. Katz and Tush
Polacco
Pink and Say
Raschka
Charlie Parker Plays BeBop
Raschka
John Coltrane’s Giant Steps
Raschka
Like Likes Like
Raschka
Ring! Yo?
Raschka
Yo! Yes?
Raven
Circle Unbroken: The Story of a Basket and Its People
Ringgold
Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky
Ringgold
Bonjour, Lonnie
Ringgold
Dinner at Aunt Connie’s House
Ringgold
The Invisible Princess
Ringgold
Tar Beach
Roberts
Jazzy Miz Mozetta
Rodman
My Best Friend
Rosen
Elijah’s Angel: A Story for Chanukah and Christmas
Rumford
Rain School
San Souci
The Secret of the Stones
San Souci
Sukey and the Mermaid
Schroeder
Ragtime Tumphie
Seeger
Abiyoyo
Sisulu
The Day GoGo Went to Vote
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Smalls
Kevin and His Dad
Smith
Girls Hold up This World
Steptoe
Baby Says
Steptoe
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
Steptoe
Stevie
Stojic
Rain
Stolz
Storm in the Night
Strom
Rainbow Joe and Me
Suen/Keats Loose Tooth
Tarpley
I Love My Hair!
Taulbert
Little Cliff and the Porch People
Turner
Nettie’s Trip South
Tusa
Maebelle’s Suitcase
Taylor
Geoerge Crum and the Saratoga Chip
Tyler
The Skin You Live In
Van Allsburg Probuditi!
Van Laan
Little Fish, Lost
Van Steenwyk My Name Is York
Wahl
Little Eight John
Walter
Two and Too Much
Weatherford Dear Mr. Rosenwald
Weatherford Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins
Whelan
Yatandou
Williams
Beach Tail
Williams
Cherry and Cherry Pits
Williams
Galimoto
Williams
More, More, More, Said the Baby
Williams
When Africa Was Home
Williams
Working Cotton
Winter
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Woodson
Coming on Home Soon
Woodson
The Other Side
Woodson
Pecan Pie Baby
Woodson
Show Way
Wright
Journey to Freedom: A Story of the Underground Railroad
Wyeth
Something Beautiful
Yarbrough
Cornrows
Yolen
Miz Berlin Walks
Young
Golden Bear
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